Free Speech in Classical Antiquity

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This book contains a collection of essays on the notion of “Free Speech” in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as “freedom of speech,�

Dangerous Counsel

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We often talk loosely of the “tyranny of the majority” as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was

Flattery and the History of Political Thought

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Flattery is an often overlooked political phenomenon, even though it has interested thinkers from classical Athens to eighteenth-century America. Drawing a dist

Grammar and Philosophy in Late Antiquity

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This book examines the various philosophical influences contained in the ancient description of the noun. According to the traditional view, grammar adopted its

KAKOS, Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity

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The fourth in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical Antiquity, this volume examines the negative foils, the anti-values, against which